Norman Petty's Vault and Clovis, New Mexico - Hippie Love Turbo Radio Show - Code Word "Onion"

This episode of Hippie Love Turbo, on KUCR 88.3 FM is named after one of the most versatile yet controversial vegetables ever...the onion. I could go into the important agricultural contributions onions have made over the years but instead I'll just jump straight into main topic I covered on this episode (totally not because I'm lazy). 

I can get down with Shrek

I played a couple tracks from the 2007 compilation Now Hear This! Garage & Beat From The Norman Petty Vaults and when I went to look up the album online I noticed that a bunch of tracks are now missing from the original release. The version of the album that you'll find online is from 2009 and ironically, it's missing the title track Now Here This! by Buddy Holly's former band The Crickets or as they were known at that time, Jerry Allison & The Crickets. Allison was the drummer for the band, as well as, a primary songwriter and during this time Jerry Naylor sang lead vocals. The other missing tracks include: 

• The Trolls - I Don't Recall
• The Perils - Hate
• The Teardrops - Sweet Sweet Sadie
• The Morfomen - Write Me A Letter
• The Monocles - Let Your Lovin' Grow 

It's a shame the tracks are missing because, honestly, they are some of the better tracks on the compilation. 

To those of you that are wondering who Norman Petty was, he was a musician, producer, and engineer that was most famous for his work with Buddy Holly and The Crickets. Petty had a somewhat tumultuous relationship with the band over the years and there is some argument about how much he contributed to their success, however, it is undeniable that Petty helped launch the careers of many local musicians through the Norman Petty Recording Studios in Clovis, NM. In fact, Roy Orbison's first studio recording, The Teen Kings' - Ooby Dooby, was made at Petty's studio, as well as, Buddy Knox with The Rhythm Orchids' hit song Party Doll. 

If you're ever on a trip to Clovis or are just passing through you can visit the studio, although you do have to make an appointment. Unlike the famous Sun Studio in Memphis, TN it doesn't appear as though the studio still functions as a recording studio but instead it's a museum featuring a collection of equipment that was used by Norman along with various other artifacts. If you haven't had your fill of Clovis' rock and roll history you can head about a mile and a half east to visit the Norman & Vi Petty Rock & Roll Museum. For more information about Norman Petty and the "Clovis Sound" check out this article by Stewart Green and if you can't quite make it to Clovis to visit the museums you can live vicariously through some informative videos made YouTuber Daze with Jordan the Lion.

You can listen to this episode's playlist below:

 

Royal Shandels - Be Careful With Your Carful
The Impac - Too Far Out

Grace Slick, Van Morrison, and Rotating Band Lineups - Hippie Love Turbo Radio Show - Code Word "Watercress"

On this episode of Hippie Love Turbo, on KUCR 88.3 FM we got twisted up in some crazy band drama as I tried to understand the confusing history of the bands Starship and Them. 

Whenever you see reissues and compilations featuring Them, Van Morrison's name is plastered everywhere, which makes sense as Morrison is not only a founding member but also the most famous since he later had a series of top hits including Brown Eyed Girl. However, when you dive deeper into the band's history, you'll discover how they had a million line-up changes, not including all of the studio musicians featured on their early work, all of which makes it appear as if the band was never really a cohesive group. There is a fantastic timeline on Garage Hangover which goes through all of the band's intricacies better than I ever could. The whole thing makes my head spin. 

As for Starship, the band came from the ashes of Jefferson Starship, which itself was comprised of members of Jefferson Airplane. Checking out the lists of former musicians from Starship and Jefferson Starship's makes you wonder how anyone in the band could keep track of who was supposed to show up and preform on any given night. For Starship, the only real consistent member was Mickey Thomas and Jefferson Starship's longest lasting member was Paul Kantner before he died in 2016. As of today, the current lineup of Jefferson Starship only includes one original member, David Freiberg, and Freiberg had left the band for a big chunk of time between 1984 and 2005. 

 

Grace Slick's power move in the music video for Starship's We Built This City

 

Although the three bands had a wide variety of sounds and personnel, one thing that ultimately tied them all together is how singer Grace Slick is featured in their most popular works. Slick was featured on Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow which is often listed as one of the best psychedelic albums of all time, Jefferson Starship's first four albums which all had singles that reached the Billboard top 10, and most unfortunately, Starship's top hits We Built This City and Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (which was featured in the bizarre romantic comedy Mannequin). 

While this is my personal opinion, I do believe it's one that many people share; Starship is hokey as hell and it's a tad bit sad knowing the band is tied to Jefferson Airplane. In fact, Grace Slick herself said the following in an interview with CBS is 2009: "I don't like Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now 'cause I can Stop you with a big truck. We're going to be together forever? Come on, please."

You can check out this episode's playlist below:

 

The Rabbits - I'm Looking In The Universe
The Midnight Angels - I'm Sufferin'

Cadillac Ranch, The Second Amendment Cowboy and Betty Ford! Hippie Love Turbo Radio Show - Code Word "Yams"

On this episode of Hippie Love Turbo, on KUCR 88.3 FM we started the show with a song by Soulbenders titled I Can't Believe in Love and I mentioned that the group was from the second largest city in Michigan, Grand Rapids. 

USA Today has said that Grand Rapids is one of the best beer towns in the U.S. but before you hit the bars during your next trip into the city you should stop by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum where you can see such artifacts as: Ford's football collection, Betty Ford's dress collection, and the Colt 1911 that Manson follower Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme used when she attempted to assassinate Ford. 

Another item among the museums collection is a political cartoon by Paul Conrad which depicts the Ford family with President Ford covering the first lady's mouth. Mrs. Ford was known for her outspoken socially moderate/liberal views which were seen as detrimental to Ford's presidency and re-election bid. Our modern political climate makes it difficult to imagine that there was a time when Republicans could publicly call themselves feminists or express pro-abortion views but Betty Ford often placed herself in the forefront of many women's issues. In contrast, former first lady Laura Bush waited until her husband left office until she expressed her views on abortion and other social issues on Larry King Live. 

As a historical local aside, after Ford's presidency ended the Fords relocated to the Thunderbird Country Club in Rancho Mirage where they resided until their deaths. Both the president and first lady were then buried on the grounds of the Ford Presidential Library.

The 2nd Amendment Cowboy (Image by Gorup de Besanez) and Squeaky's Colt 1911 Pistol

 

Later in the episode you heard a song from the fairly obscure band from Amarillo, TX, The Notations which led to a discussion about the city's many public art attractions such as the Second Amendment Cowboy (which ironically appears to be weaponless), the Helium Time Columns Monument, Ozymandias of Amarillo, and most famously the Cadillac Ranch. 

 

Cadillac Ranch photo by scott1346

Cadillac Ranch was the brainchild of members of the Ant Farm art group: Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels. I first heard about Ant Farm when I stumbled upon a video on Archive.org featuring their performance art piece, Media Burn, which features members of the collective driving a customized Cadillac through a pyramid of flaming television sets. I could go on and on about Ant Farm but I'll leave that for another day. The Museum of Contemporary Art produced a short documentary about Media Burn which explores the concept and execution of the event.

You can check out the songs played during this episode below:

 

The Exotics - I Was Alone
Fax - Only Everything
Johnny Neal and The Starliners - Walk Baby Walk
The Nu-Notes - Tico Tico

Hot Rod and Motorcycle Rock Playlist

You heard some gas guzzling hot rods, drippy guitars, far out 2-strokes, and swinging back-beats on this special automotive inspired episode of Hippie Love Turbo, on KUCR 88.3 FM! Most of the songs I played on the show would normally fall into the surf rock category but with some slight lyrical tweaks and engine sound effects...BOOM! You've got yourself a new subgenre.

In the spirit of the Moto Special, we're going to look at two fun examples of 60s car culture that are semi-related to the garage rock scene (at least that's what I'm telling myself). Firstly, if you like custom cars and cool guitars you should check out the Voxmobile made by George Barris in 1967. Barris was best known for his work on television vehicles including the original Batmobile from the 60s Batman and The Munster's Koach but he also worked on promotional vehicles for various companies including the musical equipment brand Vox. 

Jimmy Bryant and the Voxmobile as seen on the cover of The Fastest Guitar in the Country

 

The first thing you'll notice when looking Barris' Voxmobile is that both sides feature oversized Vox Phantom IV basses, however, what's not immediately obvious is that the car actually features Vox Beatle amplifier heads and speakers in the rear which can be used as a sound source for a live band. The car was featured on the cover of Jimmy Bryant's album The Fastest Guitar in the Country and there are various promotional material featuring the vehicle and artists that used Vox gear such as Eric Burdon and The Animals. If you are interested in reading more about the Voxmobile there's a cool article by Dave Hunter on the Vintage Guitar website.

The Surfite on the MST3K Village of The Giants episode and museum photo by Bill Abbott.

 

The next car is a yellow eye catcher by Ratfink creator Ed "Big Daddy" Roth named The Surfite.  Created 1964 the car is one of Roth's more obscure creations that managed to find its way into several musical comedies including Beach Blanket Bingo and Village of The Giants, the latter of which can be seen on an episode of the hilarious TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000. Unfortunately for all you Roth lovers out there, all of The Surfite's movie appearances are fairly brief and blurry. 

Enhance!

The car is an asymmetrical single-seater that features a cutout section which fits a medium sized surfboard that's painted to match the vehicle. Although we all can't cruise around in our very own Surfites we can settle for the Revell model kit which is still available today.

You can listen to this episode's wild burnt rubber playlist below:

 

Darts - Hollywood Drag
The Road Runners - New Mustang
Lafayette and The Lasabres - Free Way
The Shutdowns - Four In The Floor
The Vibratones - Expressway
Dave Myers Effect - Checkered Flag
Bob Steffek and The Falcons - Wild Woody
Venturas - Ram Charger

Hippie Love Turbo Radio Show - Code Word "Papaya"

On this week's episode of Hippie Love Turbo, on KUCR 88.3 FM I kept the blabbing to a minimum and let the music do the talking. 

In the past I've mentioned how I've got this fun compilation record that was put out by Rhino Records which features a bunch of covers of Louie, Louie, which was made most famous by The Kingsmen. A few years later Rhino released a second edition on CD but I admit I haven't checked it out and I don't really plan on it. You can only listen to one song so many times, right?

I've always liked the older Rhino Records logo by William Stout

Well, the reason I bring this up is because I played Los Sprinter's cover of the Rolling Stones' Paint It Black and I've floated the idea of doing an entire show dedicated to different contemporaneous versions of the song. There are definitely enough versions to fill an hour program but I'm not too sure if that'd get boring fairly quickly. Who knows, maybe I'll just make a playlist that people can peck away at during their own time. 

Speaking of covers, you heard Paul Revere and The Raiders play a cover of Donovan's Catch The Wind, which is another song that's been performed by many artists over the years. While quite a few renditions of the song are strange, my favorite is a toss-up between Eartha Kitt's or Buck Owens'. If you feel like you are in a more sentimental mood you can check out Sammy Hagar's dramatic take on the song or perhaps Glen Campbell's more subdued version. 

Finally, before we get to the playlist I want to quickly circle back to Louie, Louie and show you this "citizen complaint" over The Kingsmen's version which asses that the lyrics are "obscene" and "filthy." In case you didn't know, the FBI actually had an investigation into whether or not the song contained lyrics which could be considered lewd and/or pornographic and someone had to read and compile multiple interpretations of the lyrics including some which were distributed at Sarasota Junior High School in Florida. It seems so silly and quaint nowadays but I can't help but love how the square that wrote the complaint ended it on such a poetic note.

How can we stamp out this menace?

Listen to this week's playlist below:

 

Los Sprinters - Píntalo Negro
The Riders Of Mark - The Electronic Insides of Dr. Krieg
Bob Hocko and The Swamp Rats - I'm Going Home

Mark Romanek's disowned film Static (1986) Hippie Love Turbo Radio Show - Code Word "Spinach"

On this episode of Hippie Love Turbo, on KUCR 88.3 FM you heard a typical selection of garage rock bangers and far-out psych songs but on this post I'm going to focus on this week's obscure film recommendation, Static (1986).

The protagonist's collection of malformed crucifixes

I think what attracts me to this film is how its surreal nature leads you to believe that anything is possible, however, in a sort of strange way, the film is still somewhat grounded in reality. There are no floating spirits, time traveling, or demonic possessions and although the characters are bizarre and quirky, they don’t have any qualities which could be interpreted as being supernatural. I’ve seen others compare Static to a David Lynch’s work (such as Blue Velvet and TwinPeaks) due to its small-town America setting, melodramatic acting and general strangeness but absent is Lynch’s sinister overtones, sexual deviancy, or otherworldly events. 

Static's take on a small town cafe

 

Without spoiling too much of the plot, the film centers around an invention the protagonist (Ernie Blick) creates which he believes will dramatically change how people view religion and the afterlife. The audience isn’t made aware of what Ernie’s invention is at first so as he hypes it up to his fellow townies you are drawn into the excitement as well. Because Ernie seems a little off you can’t help but question whether or not he’s invented a cure for cancer or the next hot selling infomercial product.

A small group awaits the unveiling of Ernie's invention

  

Finding a decent copy of Static is fairly difficult. The first time I heard of the movie was when it was aired on Comet TV and I started watching when the film was already at the halfway point. Instead of watching the film with limited context, I looked it up on IMDB and told myself I’d find it streaming somewhere at a later date. From what I can tell the only way you can watch Static online are from old VHS/Laserdisc rips which are uploaded to various video sharing sites. The best quality version floating out in the universe in this present day appears to be the version which was broadcasted on television back in 2017 and with all the ads and possible edits/censorship it’s certainly not the most complete or preferred viewing experience. When I tried to find out why there is no Blueray or proper DVD release (the only official DVD release is supposedly of horrible quality), I found out that the director, Mark Romanek, isn’t too fond of his directorial debut and has said on The Reel World Matters that: 

 “For me it seemed premature. Like I had an opportunity to make a film before I felt I had much to say or knew what I was really doing as a filmmaker, so I just find it this sort of embarrassing bit of juvenilia.” 

Of course, it's just speculation but I assume that Romanek himself has no desire to approve of an official HD release and it's more than likely that there isn't really much of a demand for it anyhow. Romanek considers 2002’s One Hour Photo to be his first real film but his most well-known directorial works are probably his music videos which include: Nine Inch Nails' Closer, Michael and Janet Jackson's Scream, and Fiona Apple's Criminal. 

The movie is a quick watch and if you can handle watching a lo-fi copy of the film, I believe it's worth seeking out, especially if you are a fan of unusual low budget storytelling.

And if you are just here for the music, you can check out this week's playlist below:

 

The Shadow Knows - Hippie Love Turbo Radio Show - Code Word "Arugula"

On this week's episode of Hippie Love Turbo on KUCR 88.3 FM you heard a deep cut from Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders, The Shadow Knows. The Mindbenders are best known in the U.S. for their hit songs Game of Love and a version of A Groovy Kind Of Love which you may also know from the Phil Collins' version which appeared on the soundtrack of his 1988 film Buster. Unlike The Mindenders' hit songs, The Shadow Knows is brooding and slow with odd howling and shrieking in the background. The song was originally performed by The Coasters, a group that gained fame from their novelty songs Charlie Brown and Yakety Yak. The Coasters' version is a bit cheerier than The Mindbenders' version which leans more towards the macabre.

The Shadow Knows is based on the radio drama The Shadow which famously used the line; "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows." and due to the popularity of the radio drama, the line; "The Shadow knows" became a sort of catch phrase which people would repeat in their daily lives. 

Did you brush your teeth today? The Shadow knows.

Tearing your face off? The Shadow knows.

 

Although there were many pulp magazines, comic books, and serialized dramas based on The Shadow my first and only real exposure to the character was through the 1994 film starring Alec Baldwin. If you watch the film within the context of 1994, you can understand why the film received underwhelming reviews and box office sales to match. The film is fairly stylized and has exciting visual effects but at the time many people were quick to associate The Shadow with other film noir/pulp/golden age comic inspired movies such as Batman Returns (1992) and, perhaps in a more damning way, Dick Tracy (1990). It's one of those films that you really want to like but ultimately it leans too hard on aesthetics and ignores the importance of good dialogue and character building.

If you want to listen to some of the old episodes of The Shadow radio drama, check out the collection on Old Radio World. Tracking down issues of the pulp magazine aren't as easy but I've found a few archived websites which has text versions of The Shadow Magazine, as well as, a couple scanned issues on archive.org.

Have you listened to this week's playlist? The Shadow knows.

 

Val McKenna - Now That You've Made Up Your Mind
Village - Man In The Moon

Dancing and Surfing Birds - Hippie Love Turbo Radio Show - Code Word "Date"

On this week's episode of Hippie Love Turbo, (totally not a repeat!) on KUCR 88.3 FM I talked about the third episode of the early 2000s television show Grounded For Life and how one scene in particular stood out for its honest take on a problem many music lovers have had to deal with over the years. I'm not talking about scratched records, warped tapes, or broken jewel cases but rather that moment where you hear a new or different song from an artist that you love and you can't help but think to yourself; "This sounds a lot like another one of their songs." Ah yes, the dreaded filler song. Nowadays it's not so much of a problem. You can pretty much find anything online for free or nearly free but back when you had to buy physical media it was a bummer hearing multiple tracks with the same melody or similar lyrics etc. 

A valid argument.

The example I gave on the show was The Trashmen's song Bird Dance Beat which is a near carbon copy of their hit song Surfin' Bird. In fact, they even reference Surfin' Bird in the lyrics!

Well, the kids here are a wailin' so let's do it now.
'Cause the Birdman's singing papa ooh mow mow.
If you've heard the Surfin' Bird you can't go wrong.
'Cause they're playin' and a singin' with a Bird Dance song.

However, I must admit that I forgot to talk about an even more blatant example in ? & The Mysterians' version of Can't Get Enough Of You, Baby which came out a year after their biggest hit 96 Tears. The two songs' intros are exactly, note for note, the same and the way the organ's chords pulse couldn't be more similar. 

 

In the end, there are probably dozens of other examples of soundalikes but when you listen to this sort of music you have to keep in mind that there are only so many chords that you can use in rock n roll and the number of those chords are probably cut in half when you factor in amateur musicians playing open chords in their parents' basement/garage/shed. If you know of more artists that recycled their hits feel free to list them below and thanks for listening!

Here's this week's playlist:

 

Transfer - Play It Cool
Los Twist Teens - Mi Carro (Bird Dance Beat)
Dara Puspita - Pip Pip Yeah

50th Episode Special!

Last week's episode of Hippie Love Turbo, on KUCR 88.3 FM was the 50th Episode Special! Throughout this show's run I've never played the same song more than once but for the 50th episode I thought it'd be fun to revisit some of my favorites.

When I first got the idea of starting a new show I imagined that it would focus on bizarre and rare tracks such as library/production music aka Muzak or elevator music. I liked the idea of having a show that played music that wasn't intended for attentive listening but rather as background sound for when you were shopping or when a radio host needed to make an announcement. Eventually my idea for a show morphed into something that's a bit more palatable but you can sort of see traces of my original concept in the music I play during my speaking segments. I've never really talked about the songs that I use for backing tracks but there aren't very many. Below you'll find a playlist of my bumper music and after that you can find the tracks that I played on the 50th Special Episode! Thanks for tuning in and I'll catch y'all next time.

 

France Gall - Hippie Hippie
Daughters of Eve - Hey Lover
Thorinshield - The Best Of It

Billy Bass - Hippie Love Turbo Radio Show - Code Word "Breadfruit"

On this episode of Hippie Love Turbo, on KUCR 88.3 FM you heard The Others' cover of Howlin' Wolf's Smokestack Lightning and I talked about how the group (or some version of the group) recorded more music in 2012 and that I wasn't able to find any of it. Well, I guess I didn't look too hard because after the show I found the band's Soundcloud and YouTube channel. If you're interested in hearing their newer material I suggest that you first watch their live in-studio performance of Al Green's Take Me To The River which I first heard performed by a robotic fish. However, to my ears Big Mouth Billy Bass' version sounds more like the Talking Heads' adaptation. 

Clip from WLUK-TV FOX 11 story describing how a Billy Bass stopped a burglary.

 

Some of you out there might feel pretty nostalgic for good ol' Billy Bass. It's already been a over 20 years since the gag gift's big debut and I'm sure you may know of at least one person in your life that has one collecting dust in the attic, hiding in a box, or perhaps even proudly hanging up in the living room. Supposedly, Queen Elizabeth had one, as did George W. Bush, and my grandparents, but as with most fads Billy's popularity waned over the years after outselling another gag gift fad, the Pet Rock. According to the inventor of the Billy Bass, Joe Pellettieri, one of the main reasons sales plummeted was due to retail closures such as KB Toys and the drugstore chain Eckerd. 

Although Billy Bass isn't as common as he used to be, the fish has inspired many tinkerers over the years and has popped up in many projects such as the wall of 75 Big Mouth Bass at The Royal Palms in Chicago, Donald Bell's Bluetooth hack, Ben Eagan's Echo Dot mashup, Simon The Magpie's Big Mouth Bass Guitar, as well as, a bunch of circuit bent versions such as OK Housecat's. 

Now someone needs to find a way to hack a Chia Pet.

Check out this week's gag gift inspired playlist below:

 

The Gladiators - Bull Dog

Acid and The Leap of Faith - Hippie Love Turbo Radio Show - Code Word "Plum"

On this episode of Hippie Love Turbo, on KUCR 88.3 FM you heard a song by the band Mike Stuart Span named Children of Tomorrow. The band's history is very complicated and I won't try to make heads or tails of it here but there is a great write up by a Reddit user named mindlesspleasures that summarizes the band's history fairly well. While it takes a while to wrap your head around the band's convoluted history, one thing that stood out to me is how every biography about Mike Stuart Span sort of glosses over the death of their guitarist Nigel Langham. According to the band's official website:

"Tripping on LSD, guitarist Langham fell to his death after leaping through an upstairs window. The band were left in a profound state of shock; despite the blandishments of the encroaching psychedelic era, the Mike Stuart Span subsequently became a resolutely drug-free zone."

If you've ever been curious about LSD and its effects on the human psyche you've probably heard the ever-present story of the reckless hippie, blasted out of his mind, discovering that in his altered state he has gained the ability to fly. Due to his inebriated state the hippie gleefully leaps from a tall window only to discover that he has, in fact, not gained the ability to fly and that his poor decisions lead to his untimely demise. It's one of those stories that gets repeated time and time again and I've always assumed it's been planted in everyone's imaginations by well-meaning squares but after reading about Nigel Langham I began to wonder much truth is behind the urban legend. 

A typical drugged out hippie as portrayed by Johnny Welfare on The Simpsons.

It seems that the most popular version of the story comes from the tragic death of radio personality Art Linkletter's daughter Diane Linkletter. Mr. Linkletter attributed his daughter's death to psychological damage caused by psychoactive drugs and said that the person who first sold Diane LSD was “the man who murdered my daughter.’’ Because Linkletter had killed herself by jumping from a building and because of her father placing the blame on LSD, the story took on a life of its own over the years and transformed into a cautionary tale of accidental death caused by being high in the wrong place at the wrong time. Snopes delves into the case and explains how evidence of Ms. Linkletter's drug use is actually fairly scant. 

Nevertheless, as I began to do some more research, I discovered that Linkletter's death wasn't the first falling death associated with LSD. According to a United Press International article in 1966 Vernon P. Cox, who was only 20 years old, jumped out a third story bedroom window after saying: “as long as I’m on a trip, I think I’ll go to Europe." The article also claims that a police representative stated:

“You know how that stuff works. He probably thought he was a bird and tried to fly out the window."

Eventually the famous LSD proponent Timothy Leary was ordered to pay $100,000 to Cox's family after a judge ruled that Vernon was inspired to drop acid after attending one of Leary's lectures. The time frame makes it seem as though the lecture Cox may have attended took place at the first (and perhaps only?) LSD Conference in San Francisco. Regardless, this event helped cement the idea that LSD causes people to jump from great heights. 

Years later the death of Ruth Moment Armistead followed a similar pattern to Diane Linkletter's when Armistead had leapt from The University of Texas' UT Tower after bouts of depression caused by mental breakdowns which her family associated with psychedelic drugs. Moment's death led her father to create a lobbying group known as the Legal Drug Control Society which pushed for stricter drug laws and at the time of LDCS' creation Mr. Armistead was quoted saying: “My daughter didn’t jump off that tower - LSD pushed her off.” For a more in-depth and heartbreaking analysis of the events which lead to Moment's demise check out this article by Christie Lypka.

Unfortunately, high-flying psychedelic deaths didn't end in the '60s and '70s and there have even been several documented cases within the last decade. While there are some kernels of truth to the acid induced leap of faith one should note that it's much more common to die from accidents related to legal drugs such as alcohol. Yes, drinking is more common than dropping acid, however, every person that drinks doesn't automatically become a drunk driver just as every person that takes a psychedelic trip doesn't leap out of a window.

If you gleam anything from this simple blog post it should be that acid is a serious drug that should be respected and some people are more vulnerable to its negative effects. Does that mean you shouldn't try it? I'll leave that up to you but if you're going to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs, you should understand the risks, have a trusted spotter, and stay away from dangerous settings including heights, train tracks, and volcanoes. 

Although I don't agree 100% with his assessment, I'll leave you with a quote from Bill Hicks' 1992 comedy special Revelations where he discuses the matter.

"Always that same LSD story. You’ve all seen it. 'Young man on acid, thought he could fly, jumped out of a building. What a tragedy.' What a dick! Fuck him! He’s an idiot. If he thought he could fly, why didn’t he take off from the ground first? 

Check it out. You don’t see ducks lining up to catch elevators to fly south. They fly from the ground, you moron. Quit ruining it for everybody."

You can check out this week's playlist below:

 

Bram Rigg Set - Take The Time To Be Yourself